All 3 Uses of
ebb
in
David Copperfield
- It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- By little and little it came out, that, in the competition on all points of appearance and gentility then running high in the Commons, he had spent more than his professional income, which was not a very large one, and had reduced his private means, if they ever had been great (which was exceedingly doubtful), to a very low ebb indeed.†
Chpt 37-39
- Slimy gaps and causeways, winding among old wooden piles, with a sickly substance clinging to the latter, like green hair, and the rags of last year's handbills offering rewards for drowned men fluttering above high-water mark, led down through the ooze and slush to the ebb-tide.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide